In Western eighteenth-century philosophy, with positivism as the prevailing school of thought, it was common to see the world was rational, orderly, and logically explainable—just think of Auguste Comte. Since the second half of the twentieth century, however, the belief in the omnipotent mind, philosophy, cultural criticism, and literature was lost, and people have come
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Nature Morte leftover lamb stuck between high peak teeth: clouds *** I have come too far: strange birds strange trees *** beer and kefir – father and son both at the table mustachioed The Stone breathes no more but remains warm *** I’m so beautiful! thinks the maple tree blushing even harder *** frogs
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Water is a Hypocrite What am I to do with my life? How am I supposed to know what’s right? I can’t help the way I feel, But my life has been so overprotected. Britney Spears, “Overprotected” It was 2001. The year when Vancouver was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the removal of the potlach
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One of the most active translators of Lithuanian literature into English is Romas Kinka. His biography is so multi-layered that we could have a conversation just about his personal history: born in Lithuania in 1942, his family and he left his native city of Šiauliai in 1944, spent the next 4 years in various displaced
Antanas Šileika – one of the best-known and most acknowledged prose writers of Lithuanian descent in the world – was born in 1953 in the Toronto suburb of Weston into a Lithuanian émigré family. He studied French and was an English-language teacher in Paris; a member of the editorial board of the magazine Paris Voices; the
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MADE-UP POEMS *** New confessions Blue Chrome yellow Stolen *** Tell me something, December, You have been here before. The teeth of the tiger Got you back. Only believe the first verse, The big snow, Unsent letters. *** Eye of the storm, If you could see me now I’m a believer – Yellow dog Across
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Silence organized our family. There was always, for example, a great hush surrounding the years between 1941, the year Ona was deported to Siberia, and 1944, when her husband, Anthony, and their three children fled westward. –Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile In Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), author Julija Šukys
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Jaroslavas Melnikas’s The Last Day (2018, Noir Press Ltd, translation into English by Marija Marcinkute) is a short story collection that sends the reader into the realm of the surreal. A granny ages backwards, an artist/musician’s house shrinks until he’s forced into ever smaller spaces, a traveler goes on a journey without knowing what his
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